The climbing is fanatastic here: dense route concentrations along sandstone cliffs for miles and miles.  We concentrated our efforts at a place called "Upper Shipley", outside of a little village called Black Heath.  We would wake up every morning and catch a very civilized 7-minute train out to Black Heath and then a nice 30 minute walk out to the crags.  We wanted to spend another week or two climbing here.  One could get strong here with so many great routes.  Fortunately, the many locals assured us that Tasmania has loads of climbing awaiting us.  Phew!

I should add that we saw loads of lizards while climbing, especially as each day warmed up (sorry, Donn, no pics...) and we just missed a Brown snake on one of our walks.  Damn!  I want a picture of one of these deadly and common snakes of Australia.  It was fun trading irrational fears with the aussies we met at the crags... they are quite concerned about the appetites of candaian bears, yet they think deadly snakes and spiders are harmless.  "Yar, jus' keep a good eye out, mate!" Things are still "cold" here, so snake and critter sightings are relatively rare currently.  Another month should get things well into the 30s temp-wise, so that should help the critter sightings. 

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